Marks & Spencer reveal opening date for Bridgwater store
Marks & Spencer opened a Bridgwater Foodhall at Gallagher Retail Park on 20 June 2018, adding food retail and Click & Collect.
Marks & Spencer confirmed that its Bridgwater Foodhall would open at 10am on Wednesday 20 June 2018. The store took Unit C2 at Gallagher Retail Park, The Clink, on a site Sedgemoor District Council had approved for the retailer in 2017.
Alongside food, the branch offered Click & Collect so clothing and home orders placed on the M&S website could be picked up in town. Contemporary reports put the team at about 55 people, which mattered in a town already absorbing employment from Hinkley Point C.
The Foodhall was a high-street signal as much as a property deal: national retail was prepared to invest in Bridgwater while the town's engineering and energy economy was expanding. Retail requirements move quickly, so this page records the 2018 opening rather than a current availability.